30 years ago today (7/6/93), Todd Rundgren released his fourteenth studio album No World Order, one that featured a heavily electronic-influenced sound.
Released on the Phillips CD-1, making it the first interactive album in history. Per No World Order’s wiki page- This CD-only recording was available in an interactive version on Philips’ short-lived CD-i format, as well as the Macintosh and Windows operating systems. The interactive version included the ability to alter the playback of the music by selecting a pre-determined sequence by either Rundgren or one of his four guest producers – Don Was, Jerry Harrison, Hal Willner and Bob Clearmountain. The interface allowed the listener to control various aspects of music playback. If the user did nothing, the Rundgren mix would start and play through to the end.
Check out this album in full where Rundgren in ’93 looks very Maynard James Keenan…
